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A69475 An answer to the letter to a dissenter, detecting the many unjust insinuations which highly reflect on His Majesty, as likewise the many false charges on the dissenters. Published with allowance. 1687 (1687) Wing A3416A; ESTC R14774 11,637 14

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insinuates as if the Papists also promoted the late Persecution against Dissenters and yet we remember well who Preach'd up Persecution before the Lord Major of this City and who also was made a Dean But was it because he designed Popery Moreover it 's well known that a certain Bishop in the World if one under a suspension still bears that Name who procur'd at least 200 l. to encourage a Church of England Doctor to persecute the Non-conformists and was this for the sake of Popery In a word we give the Challenge to any Man to prove that the Papist did at any time give one Farthing to a Dissenting Minister or that the Dissenters did Receive from the Government the fortieth part that Church of England Ministers have received If any Church of England Men have been sensible of the Miseries they have by their severe Laws expos'd the Dissenters unto and in compassion have given some Relief the Dissenters no doubt will thankfully acknowledge it but then they must add that unless the Church of England Men must be esteemed Papists because of the Alliance there is between their Principles this is not a receiving Mony from Papists But let the Truth be brought to Light and let the Church of England Charity to Dissenting Ministers be discovered and 't will appear that it 's not to be compared with what the Church of England hath taken from ' em Moreover it 's well known that when some Gentlemen on their Dying Reds to express their Affection to Dissenting Ministers have given 'em Legacies they have been depriv'd of ' em And where is the Dissenting Minister who Preaches up Anger and Vengeance against the Church of England Name the Man that we may know who he is and what repute he has amongst the party and 't would be also an Act of Justice in him to direct us to the People who receiv'd their Addresses from a Priest and to the Priest that made ' em If the Gentleman cannot clear up these Points as I presume he cannot how specious soever his pretences may be his untruth won't much advantage the Church of England nor will that Church have much cause to Glory in such an Advocate who doth not only charge her for Persecuting the Dissenter but makes no other Plea but what leans on the ●eeblest Foundation even on Injustice and False Accusations And if this be her best Refuge her Quarrel with the King it 's hop'd cannot hold long for these generally are the last And what is it that provokes the good Man to persuade us that the Dissenters Thanks are Extorted Doth he think that the being deliver'd from a violent Persecution is so inconsiderable a kindness that the Dissenters can't be sensible of it Are grievous Imprisonments the spoiling 'em of their Estates the ruining of their Families such small matters that the Deliverance cannot Merit the Name of a favor Or are the Dissenters so used to such Calamities and made so Brawny that they are not capable of perceiving so much Is it impossible for them to distinguish Ease from Misery If so whose fault is that Is it not the Persecutors that have so ill intreated them It 's true the Church of England did by her Rigour so over-aw them that they durst not Petition the King for ease and after his Majesty most Graciously gave it them the Dread and Confusion they remained under was so very great that the Dissenters could not easily recover themselves and make that hast they should to render the King their humblest thanks But this is not for the Honor of the Church first to frighten the Dissenter and make him move slowly and then reproach him for not making more haste And this is not all for the Dissenters do no sooner Address but they become Voluntary Aggressors and look like Counsel retain'd by the Prerogative against Magna Charta This is a run from one Extream to another they are first charged for not rendring thanks willingly and yet then are made Voluntary Aggressors for rendring such unwilling thanks who look like Counsel retain'd against Magna Charta Are not the Dissenters then in a most deplorable condition If they do not Address they are a People that can never be oblig'd by benefits nor fit to be Tolerated as one Church Doctor assures them if they do Address they are for Prerogative against Magna Charta And why against Magna Charta Is it against the Great Charter of England that a good Subject enjoy his Civil Rights and Properties The Dissenters at least the greatest part of 'em take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and thereby shew themselves to be good Subjects and why then must they be depriv'd of their Civil Rights for the sake of a Religion that hurts not the Government Some say that by the Fundamental Constitution of our Government all Laws against the Law of God are ipso facto void and null and may not the King prevent the Execution of such vacated Laws Others tell us that to be of this or that or the other Religion is not a Crime at Common Law it is but Malum Prohibitum and yet Religious Meetings have been made Routs and Riots even the supposed Intention to serve God hath been thus interpreted which are mala in se And why may not the King prevent these abuses of the Law The Dissenter is also told that 't is against Magna Charta to disseise the Subject of his Free-hold or Liberty but by Lawful Judgment of his Peers and yet by the Conventicle Act and the Oxford Act the Dissenters have been disseised of both without any such Judgment of their Peers and may not the King hinder this There have been also great Lawyers who aver that the 23d of Elizabeth affects not a Protestant Dissenter and yet many have been ruin'd by this Act and may not the King put a stop to this Injustice and Violence on the Subject It 's also told them that 't is against Magna Charta to Amerce a Free-man any other ways than after the manner of the fault saying to him his Contenement and Free-hold and yet Convictions have been unknown to the accus'd party Recorded and Warrants have been granted out for 8 10 12 or 14 Conventicles at once to the Disseising the Free-man of all he has It 's true a great Lawyer declar'd that no Conviction could be Legally Recorded untill the party accused was summoned to shew cause but another yet living was of another Opinion and gave life to Clandestine Convictions as a Justice of Peace and a great Lawyer did grant out Warrants on Prophetic Oaths that a Meeting would be the next Day or Week following But the King has deliver'd them from all these Miseries and yet may they not give thanks unless they set themselves against Magna Charta Furthermore it must not be forgotten how much the Church of England have exalted the Prerogative when they were in hopes of having it employ'd against the Dissenter and